Streetfashion Menswear FW2013 Milan Day 2
January 14, 2013 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Featured Items, Menswear, Milan, People, Streetwear
What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Prada-shoes, your latest Raf Simons-sweater or that vintage Gucci? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: Milan Menswear, season fall/winter 2013.
Streetfashion Menswear FW2013 Milan Day 1
January 13, 2013 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Featured Items, Menswear, Milan, People, Streetwear
What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Prada-shoes, your latest Raf Simons-sweater or that vintage Gucci? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: Milan Menswear, season fall/winter 2013.
Streetstyle Trend: Classic Camel
December 23, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Streetwear, Trends, womenswear
Some trends start on the streets, others begin on the catwalk. The camel coat is one of those catwalk wonders. From MaxMara and Chloe to Gucci, Hermes and Michael Kors; it was in every show a few seasons ago and now it’s a big streetstyle trend. Models, bloggers, editors, photographers; everyone is sporting the classic coat look. And we can’t blame them. Those camel coats look both soft and warm and go well with just about anything. Pick a XL version and you’re joining in on the oversize fall trend as well. Wear it big or tie things up with a small belt around the waist. Just keep it classic and you can’t go wrong!
Streetstyle Trend: Checks for chicks
December 10, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Featured Items, Streetwear, Trends, womenswear
J. Crew, Marni, Jonathan Saunder; all designers who opted for checks this fall. J.W. Anderson probably scored this biggest hit with it’s checked sweaters, which we spotted in the streets of Milan and London. Funny how something so simple can become such a hit, right? Well, if you have any fashion item that has a bold check print you should start wearing it. How nice is it we can start wearing checked shirts tied around our waists again? Tweeds, pied-de-poules, tartan and hound tooth checks will do the job too. Don’t hold back, wear a fashionable kind of check.
Dutch Fashion Awards 2012: Backstage
December 5, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Backstage, beauty, Events, Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, make-up, models, People
Take a look backstage at the Dutch Fashion Awards 2012 that took place in The Hague last friday. See how models get dressed, see the make up artists and hairdressers at work and even Mattijs ironing his dresses.
Alexander Wang for Balenciaga
December 4, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items
For five years now Alexander Wang (28) has kicked off almost every single fashion season as one of the first designers to show during New York Fashion Week. Since 2007 the young designer has managed to generate raving reviews and created a solid international fanbase of people crazy for his sportswear inspired, edge creations. Wang has high profile fans all around the world; from Rihanna to Olivia Palermo and12 own stores even though the fashion house is still a family business.
And while the success of this young label continues to grow, Wang is taking on another challenge at Balenciaga (and will travel between New York and Paris to do so). As the new creative director of the Parisian fashion house Wang will follow in the footsteps of Nicolas Ghesquière, who left the house last month after 15 years. A new designer potentially means the start of a new Balenciaga era.
With Wang on board the French label might be able to reach a wider audience, create more selling points and perhaps even better price points. And maybe Balenciaga, which has been high end and exclusive (even the number of catwalk photographers allowed at shows was extremely limited) since it was founded by Cristobal Balenciaga in 1937, could use a bit of Wang’s American commercialism. Even though the label did very well with Ghesquière as it’s designer.
There’s no doubt Wang will do a great job as Ghesquière’s successor. But, what can we expect?
The sporty elements and the mixing of materials will stay, no doubt about that. Wang, who is already going through Balenciaga’s archives, might start experimenting with more colors and prints, something he never really did for his own (very black-oriented) label. We might start to see more of Balenciaga’s heritage brought back to live. Clothing may become more approachable once Wang’s extraordinary streetwise twist is added. And perhaps the thirties fashion house will get a modern touch up (even though this winter’s out of the blue galaxy prints were pretty futuristic) in order to reach a global audience.
Yet the CEO of Balenciaga’s parent company PPR, François-Henri Pinault, already stated not a whole lot is going to change: “The challenge taken by Alexander, which I really liked in discussions with him, is for him to express his talent in a different situation for another brand with its own DNA, and he’s absolutely excited with that.”
One thing’s for certain; his first autumn/winter 2013/2014 shake up is going to be a good one. And we can’t wait to take a sip from this Balenciaga-Wang cocktail.
Let’s take a look back on some of Wang’s most outstanding designs in the gallery below.
Dutch Fashion Awards 2012: Collections
December 3, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Menswear, womenswear
For the ones who couldn´t attend Friday night´s spectacle or for those who want to take an extra look at the designs: here´s our gallery of collection images. From last year´s winner Conny Groenewegen, to Fair Luxury Award winner Elsien Gringhuis, Dutch Incubator Award winner (for the second year in a row) Hyun Yeu, Dutch Touch Paris Award winner Anne de Grijff, Marga Weimans and of course, Mattijs, who went home with two awards.
Click through the images of Elsien´s beautifully colored sustainable collection, dream away with Anne´s airy pleated creations, be amazed by Marga´s architectural looks, get overwhelmed by Hyun Yeu´s structured menswear looks and see just ow talented these young Dutch designers actually are.
Mercedes Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2012: Arrivals
December 1, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, People
Dressed their best the Dutch fashion crowd (by exception) moved from Amsterdam to The Hague last night. The occasion? For the sixth time the annual Dutch Fashion Award show took place in the Grote Kerk. Now you already know which designers were nominated and who won the big Mercedes Benz Dutch Fashion Award 2012. Yet what you haven’t seen, is who were there. And we can assure you we spotted quite a few very classy guests in front of our photo wall. Editors, buyers, actrices, writers all with two things in common: a passion for fashion and an impeccable sense of style. Click through our gallery below to see who attended the Dutch Fashion Awards and (even more exciting) how they interpreted this year’s dress code ‘simply gorgeous’.
Mercedes Benz Dutch Fashion Award 2012 for Mattijs van Bergen
December 1, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Events, Fashion, Featured Items
The winner of the Mercedes Benz Dutch Fashion Award 2012 is… Mattijs van Bergen!! He also won the International Fashion Incubator Awards 2012. Double luck for the designer who wants to use the money to improve his sales abroad.
The other Dutch Fashion Awards went to:
Fair Luxury Award – Elsien Gringhuis
Dutch Touch Paris Award – Anne de Grijff
Dutch Incubator Award – Hyun Yeu
Dutch Style Icon (male) – Carlo Wijnands (programm director for Amsterdam Fashion Week)
Dutch Style Icon (female) – Liesbeth in ‘t Hout (dean at Amsterdam Fashion Institute)
DFA Nominee 2012: Anne de Grijff
November 30, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items
She is one of the five designers nominated for a Dutch Fashion Award and Anne de Grijff (1978) might just become this year’s big winner. To freshen up everyone’s memory we’ve summarized what Anne de Grijff stands for. So you know just a bit of what to expect tonight in De Grote Kerk in The Hague.
Fashion label
Anne de Grijff, womenswear. Founded in 2008.
Signature
Lots of folding and pleating, subtle, minimalistic, mysterious. Anne: “My work is about perfection and imperfection, symmetry and a symmetry, revealing and dissembling.”
Short bio
Anne de Grijff graduated at AMFI in 2003. She interned at Alexander van Slobbe and G + N. Anne started off working for Mart Visser as an assistant designer and worked as a freelance designer for Claudia Sträter, Mexx and Turnover. She also lectured at fashion and styling academy Artemis and currently is a teacher at the fashion department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
Quote
“I see clothes as a line, a line I love to redivide and suspend. I never know which direction it will go. Yet by deranging unexpected turns and shapes appear. That unforeseen and unpredictable part is the most appealing to me.”
Collection
For tonight´s show Anne has been looking back on some of her older designs and has made some slight changes. She, for instance, has started working with color. “My Dutch Fashion Awards nomination coincides with a period in which reflection is very important to me. I found out my work is always about researching and questioning a straight line. All my designs begin with a straight structure. At the same time I try to interrupt and challenge that, which results in clothes with asymmetrical details, layers and pleats. By the movements of the persons wearing my designs unexpected openings and shapes appear. The last couple of months I have been looking back and asking myself questions about the process and the evolvement. For that reason I have been revising pieces from earlier collection. In my latest autumn/winter 2012 collection Hidden Colors I´ve slowly began working with color. This is visible in my vision on the paintings from the golden age. You´ll slowly see color finding it´s way in between all the black. I see it as an enlightenment, which I needed as a counterpart for all the black”, Anne explains.
Strengths
Though Anne is aware that as a fashion label she´s relatively new, she feels she´s right on track and therefore might just win one of the Dutch Fashion Awards. Anne: “In four years I have had a good focus and I´ve worked hard on getting where I want to be. I´ve invested in the quality of the product, network, productions and sales points, which all have been growing for the last two years. Concept/vision and communication are the main focus points of next year. I expect the collection to become stronger, with an extra menswear expansion.”
Plans
Anne: “Winning the Dutch Fashion Award would enable me to perfection my new Slow Forward collection and make some international steps with it. With Slow Forward I´m going to question the ´color´ black.”
Website
www.annedegrijff.com
